The Sounds of Montebello Gamelan

Booklet

This is a collection of the percussive sounds of a Central Javanese gamelan (‘gamelan’ derives from ‘gamel’, to hit with a hammer or mallet). Non-percussive gamelan sounds, which have been excluded from this collection, are those produced by instruments such as the rebab (bowed), the siter (plucked), the suling (blown), and the human voice.